User talk:Blether

August 2010

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Welcome

Hey Blether! Welcome to Wikipedia!

Thank you for your contributions. My name is Tommy and have been editing Wikipedia for a while now and would like to personally welcome you to the place!
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I want to apologize if I was rude to you before. Your edits are good, just a bit biased. I was having a bad day. Tommy! [message] 04:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ivanhoe

Could you please explain your reversion[1] of User:Wcoole's edit deleting a seeming non-sequitur about Connecticut Yankee? In the absence of any additional context, I share Wcoole's opinion that the sentence doesn't appear to belong in that place. If some discussion of Twain's relationship to this topic is desirable, another approach was suggested by the comment on the talk page proposing a criticism section, starting with Twain as a leading critic of Ivanhoe. Best,--Arxiloxos (talk) 18:20, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to Connecticut Yankee emphasises the point that the "anachronism" is quite intentional and considered - particularly for an encyclopedia whose readership is still more American than anything else. An extensive "Mark Twain as critic" is beyond my expertise. I agree that such a section would add to the topic. I believe that this brief reference does too. Blether (talk) 20:05, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Emma Brockes and Criticism of Noam Chomsky

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August 2015

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Recent BLP discussion

Hi - don't worry, that discussion did not concern you or any of your edits. The other editor pinged you in error in this edit - I think they must have misread my signature, and confused the link to my talk page with my username. Anyway, you shouldn't have been notified, I have no concerns about any of your editing - sorry you were inconvenienced. Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 09:24, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. I will try to do this at the NICRM page Blether (talk) 13:29, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for abusing multiple accounts & edit-warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. JBW (talk) 13:23, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Blether (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

'The block was Not Necessary'. I became involved in contested editing at [1955 United Kingdom general election]. At the last I *left the article itself in the state the other editor enforced by making three reverts*. Instead of engaging in an edit war I made an edit-warring report regarding that editor about the issue. (Previously I requested that editor to use the Talk page to achieve consensus, creating an entry under which to do so). Where is the danger that I will make unconstructive edits? As to multiple accounts, there are more than one person in this family who use this IP address Blether (talk) 14:28, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Your explanation of "there are more than one person in this family who use this IP address" does not align with the technical evidence available, and I am declining the unblock request on that basis. firefly ( t · c ) 14:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

Err... we are using the same computer Blether (talk) 15:10, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I don't really believe that, but even so, per WP:MEAT: For the purpose of dispute resolution when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sockpuppets or several users with similar editing habits they may be treated as one user with sockpuppets. If you live with someone and they suddenly joined in on an edit war of yours, that is treated as sockpuppetry. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 15:16, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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